Wise famous sayings

First comes thought; then organization of that thought

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Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing.
~Author : Author Unknown Motivational Sayings

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
~Author : Ellen Goodman Famous Quotes

Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.
~Author : Johnson Inspirational Sayings

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
~Author : Napoleon Hill Nice Quotes

What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.
~Author : Norbert Wiener Great Sayings

I have now reigned about 50 years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to fourteen.
~Author : Abd ErRahman III Meaningful Sayings

He turns all of his injuries into strengths

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He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.
~Author : Homer Wise Quotes

He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.
~Author : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Motivational Sayings

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
~Author : Christopher Morley Famous Quotes

Every good communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
~Author : Mao Tse Tung Inspirational Sayings

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
~Author : Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Nice Quotes

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
~Author : Mark Twain Great Sayings

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

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I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
~Author : Harry Emerson Fosdick Famous Quotes

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
~Author : Francis Bacon Inspirational Sayings

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
~Author : Theodore Roosevelt Nice Quotes

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
~Author : Michel de Montaigne Great Sayings

The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
~Author : Joe Theismann Meaningful Sayings

Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
~Author : Chinese Proverb Wise Quotes

Jeff Melvoin Wise Quotes

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Sexually,we are all competing for the same seat on the bus and the thing that holds it together is the tightly held conceit that we are all sexual gods. How can I believe in my own uniqueness when there's a cat out there exactly the same as me
~Author : Jeff Melvoin Wise Quotes

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
~Author : Voltaire Attributed originated in The Friends of Voltaire 1906 by S G Tallentyre Evelyn Beatrice Hall Motivational Sayings

When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
~Author : Anatole France Famous Quotes

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.
~Author : Albert Camus Inspirational Sayings

Men willingly believe what they wish.
~Author : Julius Caesar De Bello Gallico Nice Quotes

In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I can respond no comment with some degree of knowledge.
~Author : William Baker Great Sayings

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
~Author : Agatha Christie Meaningful Sayings

Harold S Geneen Great Sayings

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We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
~Author : Harold S Geneen Great Sayings

No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.
~Author : J Lawton Collins Meaningful Sayings

Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
~Author : Unknown Wise Quotes

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
~Author : Woodrow Wilson Motivational Sayings

A Multitasking Timex Sinclair
~Author : Matt Sorrels in reference to Andrew running XWindows Famous Quotes

Eating and scratching want but a beginning.
~Author : Romanian Proverb Inspirational Sayings

Leadership and learning are indispensible to each other.
~Author : John Fitzgerald Kennedy Nice Quotes

Dr Laura Schlessinger Famous Quotes

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Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
~Author : Dr Laura Schlessinger Famous Quotes

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Inspirational Sayings

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of the utmost insecurity.
~Author : Dag Hammarskj ld Nice Quotes

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Great Sayings

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.
~Author : Joan Rivers Meaningful Sayings

We can spend our whole lives underachieving.
~Author : Philip Crosby Reflections on Quality Wise Quotes

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
~Author : H L Mencken Motivational Sayings

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
~Author : Emo Phillips Famous Quotes

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something

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A cold in the head cause less suffering than an idea.
~Author : Jules Renard Great Sayings

After I die, wherever my spirit goes, I'm going to try to get back and visit my skeleton at least once a year, because, 'Hey, old buddy, how's it going'
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Meaningful Sayings

For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause for breath,
And love itself have rest.
~Author : Lord Byron Wise Quotes

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
~Author : Sir Winston Churchill Motivational Sayings

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
~Author : John Anthony Ciardi Famous Quotes

In the long run you only hit what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Inspirational Sayings

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
~Author : Charles Peguy Nice Quotes

If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift,

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Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.
~Author : Philip Crosby Reflections on Quality Nice Quotes

If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick.
~Author : Bob Dylan Great Sayings

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
~Author : William Jennings Bryan Meaningful Sayings

I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter.
~Author : Beverly Sills Wise Quotes

It were not best that we should all think alike it is the difference of opinion that makes horse races. - from Pudd'nhead Wilson
~Author : Mark Twain Motivational Sayings

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
~Author : William Shakespeare Famous Quotes

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
~Author : Eugene Delacroix Inspirational Sayings

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity

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The sands are number'd that make up my life.
~Author : William Shakespeare Famous Quotes

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
~Author : Tennessee Williams Inspirational Sayings

...For the unquiet heart and brain,
A use in measured language lies.
~Author : Alfred Lord Tennyson Nice Quotes

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
~Author : Joseph Heller Great Sayings

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Meaningful Sayings

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
~Author : H L Mencken Wise Quotes

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Motivational Sayings

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
~Author : Robert Louis Stephenson Famous Quotes

The sun sets without thy assistance.

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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
~Author : Saint Augustine Great Sayings

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
~Author : Marlon Brando Meaningful Sayings

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
~Author : Hannah Whitall Smith 1902 Wise Quotes

It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems. This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry--or laugh.
~Author : Kurt Vonnegut Jr Motivational Sayings

The sun sets without thy assistance.
~Author : The Talmud Famous Quotes

There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough.
~Author : William Zinsser Inspirational Sayings

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
~Author : Jack London Nice Quotes

There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.
~Author : Lester J Pourciau Great Sayings

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

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Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
~Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca Nice Quotes

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
~Author : Henry Kissinger Great Sayings

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
~Author : Beryl Markham Meaningful Sayings

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!
~Author : Albert Einstein Wise Quotes

One should count each day a separate life.
~Author : Seneca Motivational Sayings

Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
~Author : William S Gilbert Famous Quotes

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
~Author : Emily Dickinson Inspirational Sayings

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
~Author : Samuel Butler Nice Quotes

There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.

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Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose--not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
~Author : Annie Sullivan Famous Quotes

There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.
~Author : Georges Clemenceau Inspirational Sayings

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
~Author : Conan Doyle Nice Quotes

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered
~Author : Woody Allen Great Sayings

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
~Author : Hellen Keller Meaningful Sayings

The whole of the Bill of Rights is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.
~Author : Albert Gallatin Wise Quotes

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
~Author : James Truslow Adams Motivational Sayings

The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties and those who demand nothing special of themselves, bu
~Author : Jose Ortega y Gasset Famous Quotes

Success produces success, just as money produces money.

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Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Walden Wise Quotes

Success produces success, just as money produces money.
~Author : Diane Ackerman Motivational Sayings

By asking for the impossible, obtain the best possible.
~Author : Italian Proverb Famous Quotes

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
~Author : John F Kennedy Inspirational Sayings

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies
~Author : Erich Fromm Nice Quotes

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
~Author : Groucho Marx Great Sayings

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.
~Author : Philip Crosby Reflections on Quality Meaningful Sayings

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can?t be taken on its own merits.
~Author : Dan Barker Losing Faith in Faith 1992 Wise Quotes

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air?
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Motivational Sayings

Habits - the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
~Author : Juliene Berk Famous Quotes

I regret to say that we of the F.B.I. are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
~Author : J Edgar Hoover Inspirational Sayings

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
~Author : Jean Rostand Nice Quotes

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

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If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. (Proposal to reform welfare programs)
~Author : Richard Milhous Nixon Famous Quotes

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
~Author : Abraham Lincoln Inspirational Sayings

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
~Author : Charles Dickens Nice Quotes

The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.
~Author : G K Chesterton The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown Great Sayings

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
~Author : Henry Ford Meaningful Sayings

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
~Author : Edward BulwerLytton Paul Clifford Wise Quotes

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.
~Author : Sophocles Motivational Sayings

Don't be afraid to talk to yourself. It's the only way you can be sure somebody's listening.
~Author : Franklin P Jones Famous Quotes

A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
~Author : George S Patton Inspirational Sayings

With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris in a bottle.
~Author : French Proverb Nice Quotes

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
~Author : Gustave Flaubert Great Sayings

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
~Author : Scott Adams The Dilbert Future Meaningful Sayings

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

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It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.
~Author : Janos Arnay Nice Quotes

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
~Author : Henry B Adams Great Sayings

When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with'
~Author : Rita Rudner Meaningful Sayings

Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
~Author : Sir Thomas More Wise Quotes

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
~Author : W Somerset Maugham Motivational Sayings

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.
~Author : Francis Jeffrey Famous Quotes

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
~Author : Henry Fielding Inspirational Sayings

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Nice Quotes

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

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Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
~Author : Russell Baker Nice Quotes

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
~Author : Dame Rose Macaulay Great Sayings

Love all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room an everywhere.
~Author : John Donne Meaningful Sayings

Thou art a Man, God is no more.
Thy own humanity learn to adore.
~Author : William Blake Wise Quotes

It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
~Author : Philip Adams Motivational Sayings

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.
~Author : A W Tozer Famous Quotes

In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.)
~Author : George Will Inspirational Sayings

A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. Sioux

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In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait.
~Author : Jose Simon Famous Quotes

Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd.
~Author : Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Inspirational Sayings

A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. Sioux
~Author : American Indian Proverb Nice Quotes

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
~Author : Unknown Great Sayings

Report writing, like motor-car driving and love-making, is one of those activities which almost every Englishman thinks he can do well without instruction. The results are of course usually abominable.
~Author : Tom Margerison A Random Walk in Science compiled by R L Weber edited by E Mendoza Meaningful Sayings

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
~Author : Mark Twain Wise Quotes

Love tells us many things that are not so.
~Author : Ukranian Proverb Motivational Sayings

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
~Author : Spiro Agnew Famous Quotes

He is as mad as a March hare.
~Author : Miguel de Cervantes Inspirational Sayings